Past events
New report on US-China strategic competition in Southeast Asia with Bates Gill, Evelyn Goh and Chin-Hao Huang
Join us at The Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre in Canberra for a special briefing on the United States Studies Centre’s new report, Dynamics of US...
A conversation with quarterly essayist, James Brown - Firing line: Australia's Path to war
Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with ISIS. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts...
Harbingers of future war: Today's conflicts and implications for defence strategy
In recent years, many of the difficulties encountered in strategic decision making, operational planning, training, and force development stemmed from neglect of continuities in the nature of war...
The battle that never was: Mouquet farm 1916
Following the capture of the village of Pozières the men of the 1st Anzac Corps embarked on a series of operations to capture the next major obstacle to the north of the village. Thus the Battle of...
China and international security: A dialogue with distinguished Chinese scholars
A public forum organised by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU featuring
Professor Wang Jisi, President of the Institute of the International and Strategic Studies, Peking University...
Saving the INF treaty: why China should join
Russia’s violation of the 1987 INF Treaty raises a serious problem for the Treaty regime. The new administration can choose to ignore the violation, exit the Treaty, or strive to make it multilateral...
Insight and analysis on the 2016 Defence White Paper
With the launch of the new and heavily anticipated 2016 Defence White Paper on Thursday 25 February, Australia has joined the Asia-Pacific arms race - allocating up to $19 billion for weaponry and...
The Protest Years: The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975
“Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say ‘ God Save the Queen’, because nothing will save the Governor-general.” In collaboration with the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House we...
How ISIS changed the world again
In this public lecture Robert Pape will explain the rise of ISIS, its goals, targeting logic, and the group's recent shift to spectacular attacks in the context of the global environment of...
Japan, Australia and regional security architecture
In this public lecture, experts from Japan and Australia...
